February 2018

If you’ve been following the news at all recently then you will have noticed that the news coverage of cyptocurrencies has seen a significant increase in stories related to speculation and announcements regarding the implementation of government regulations.
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Why is it hard to buy bitcoins with PayPal? Many have lamented on why it has been impossible to buy bitcoins using PayPal but it’s important to understand that although there is no direct linkage whereby bitcoins can be purchased

There are already multiple stocks in the market that focus exclusively on bitcoins and/or other cryptocurrencies. We are also seeing some traditional companies pouncing on the 'bitcoin', 'blockchain' hype and taking decisions that has little to do with their core

BTC/USD
Figure 1: BTC/USD-Daily Chart-25.02.2018
To better grasp price development of BTC, it’s better to take a top-down approach and take a look at the weekly chart. Here, you notice two things. The first is that explosion of price beginning January 2017,

The new Bitcoin Core 0.16.0 update has finally been released as of February 15 and has started the rollout for full SegWit support in the wallet and user interfaces. Segregated Witness, often abbreviated as ‘SegWit’, is the process that dynamically

A newly formed country, known as ‘Liberland’, is doing what most other countries across the world are afraid of trying, which is to embrace bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Liberland, otherwise officially known as The Free Republic of Liberland is a small

In the decade or so that bitcoin has existed for, improper security of one’s bitcoin and other cryptocurrency has resulted in billions of dollars worth of losses. After the Mt. Gox hack in 2013 when a large portion of the